Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-05-21
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The cooperative ida In tie matter
Of grading streets has proven IN utter
failure % far a. the expegiment on Ia
soma avenue ID concerned, 90 least The
men Who vent into he partnership
have Rottea nothing out coumensaEate
With the work done, and there we're
fears Of q failure 10 eemplste the work
through refusal Of some Of the par
ties 10 20 En- - the fniah. Is seems
that 10 this dilemma the bondsmen vsre
appealed 70, 10 RELEASE the contractors
frsm the sE1paiations required under Is,
and permission vas obtained 70 ehanRe
the system. aAd the men Who we're
working for share In the profits lbot
Who, instead Of getting any, we're re-
quired - share the losses) we're engaged
70 20 on at the rate OF Sc per day, 20 b
paid By the contractors, Messrs. Fra
xier and Castle. IL 10 alleged that the
koBasmen Were required to keep cat"
Of this matter financially aud did -
rather than complete the work then-
selves. There are several blocks yet 20
be oonplsted. Tue work itself Ii being
done ex eellsutly, both a. 10 the grading
and sidewalks, and when finished Ia
coma avenue will be one Of the haest
II not
THE FINEST rHsRoU0HRAKR
In the city. stretching in . bread,
straight line. e. IL does, almost as far
80 the eye can reach.
Speaking Of street grading. the en0i-
neeFs were yesterday engaged in placing
the stakes on both Yakima avenue and
g streets. preparatory TO beginning
geEk on both and bringing them into
subsection as good and ready-to BE-
travelled highways.
Petitions we're in circulation yesteF-
day among the property holders OF ]
street, asking the Council to have that
street, which runs along the summit Of
the bill, also graded, and II viii prob
ably be presented ct the next meeting.
Engineer Bean states that all signs Of
the strike has disappeared from the
railroad york around the bay, bat adds
that the men are nov being paid 81 per
day. He says that the increase vas in
contemplation before the strike took
place; that be had autographed to Engi-
neer Donovan az the front 20 know
What the company vas paying there,
and that the answer vas delayed. He
learned that they
HAD ADVANCED.
To 81 IS in ths mountains, which var
ranted an advance to e. here. He had
about made out bis complement Of new
men. be says, when be received this in
telligence and advanced the price 40
coFdingly, wherenpoR the ringleaders in
the strike sought him with tears in their
eyes, some Of them, for places that had,
h0wsver, been filed.
The committee of the Chamber Of
Commerce having 10 charge the prepara-
tions for the Fourth Of July blowout
met yesterday afternoon and discussed,
among other things. the possibilities ef
big military display. All the National
Guard Of the Territory will be invited to
take part. and no doubt Inducements
will be Tered in the way Of cheap
fares, etc, TO bring them here.
The lab0rers while digging on the
railroad right of way near Chamber
lain's factory, yesterday, uneaEthed the
skeleton Of man at the foot Of an i'm
mense fir tree. The body had evidently
been
DECENTLT BURIED
A long time ago. as 1t lay with tas tree
serving as q headboaKd. Nothing re-
manned but the bones, which we're taken
charge Of and reinteTred elsewhere.
Plans of q large foar-story building
with elevators, etc., have been prepared
for W. j. Fife by his architects. The
building 10 designed TO occupy position
on the "burRed block" Pacific avenue.
Mayor Mann has prepared q petition
asking Council for the necessary leave
to remove bis wooden buildings now on
the esrner of Ninth street and Pacific
avenue to the lots be has leased on A
street for the purposs, and will begin
the removal, be says, Immediately after
the Fourth Of Jaly celebration.
ID. p. Lewis has rubbed the white
screen from the panes Of bis new build
ing on Pacific avenue, and thereby re-
vealed the fact that he
HAS MOVED
In and opened up a stock OF BARRIERS
supplies that make a very attractive
shsw. Mr.. Lewis says this is the only
store of the kind west of st. Paul.
Following are among the arrivals:
J.H, Spadner, A. II. Mallory, A. A.
Honey, A. T. Meigs and wife, I. Wood
ward, wife and child, Portland; F. B.
Hubbard, st. Paul; w. ID. Scott, j. w.
Mcleod, Captain Thomas Wright,
Seattle; s. g. Thorn, New Haven, Conn;
Geo. G. Reynolds and wife, Brooklyn,
N. Y; J. W. Oliver, Grand Rapids,
Mich; Harry Kratz, Miss Minnie
Kratz, Miss Liesed Kratz, Walla Walla;
Mrs. Joseph Roller, Napoleon, Oh 3. q.
O'BFien, Olympia; J. b. Kirkland, A.
Liehtenstain, Geo. W. Hahn, Stephen
ID. Ives, NJ. A. Rothehild. p. ]. Kellogg,
b. @. Samuel, San Francisco; John H.
Bacon, Chicago; I. b. Sweet, Topeka;
X. Carrier, Omaha; Mrs. Mary Magill,
Miss Mira Hershey, Muscatine, Iowa;
Mrs. Z. MeMahoRe, Miss Kathleen Ma
hone, Bslleville. Dat; Mrs. J. Roller,
Tiffin, o.; Job Nilsson, Victoria. b. q.